It'S been an annus horribilis for Gerry Adams with accusations coming thick and fast that he just can't tell the truth.
The Sinn Féin president's New Year resolution should be to bite the bullet and take a lie detector test.
And he could challenge those pesky journalists, 'securocrats', political opponents, and ex-IRA colleagues – all ganging up to tell lies about him – to take polygraphs too.
It would be a bold step into 2014 for Gerry, showing he harboured no dirty secrets.
He could prove once and for all he was never in the IRA, had nothing to do with Jean McConville's murder, and acted swiftly to protect children regarding his paedophile brother Liam.
Polygraphs are used regularly by police and courts in the US. Gerry should ask Sinn Féin's Irish-American benefactors to arrange one so he can rescue his damaged reputation.
Edwin Poots' New Year resolution should be to spend a weekend with lesbians.
The DUP Health Minister's stance on gay adoption and other issues has led to claims he's homophobic. He needs to get to know homosexuals first-hand rather than rely on whatever pre-conceived notions he has.
Some gay men might be too in-yer-face for Edwin but there's no reason why he can't spend a few days living with a lesbian couple. It could be a huge eye-opener.
Alasdair McDonnell's New Year resolution should be to call Conall McDevitt and welcome the ex-MLA back to the SDLP as a prodigal son.
With the European and council elections in May, the party urgently needs energy and ideas.
Conall resigned in September after failing to declare £6,000 earned from a PR company. Other shameless chancers at Stormont, guilty of far graver offences, would have hung on.
Okay, the former SDLP poster boy could be sanctimonious, earning the nickname 'the mouth from the south'.
But the party needs that bolshiness back and someone not scared to serve it up to Sinn Féin and the DUP. Alasdair, phone Conall!
Basil McCrea's New Year resolution should be to strip off and glam up. The NI21 leader co-sponsored the Miss Ulster final at Stormont in October.
But the beauty contest was moved from Parliament Buildings after a storm of controversy.
Now I'm sure Basil hasn't a sexist bone in his body. But if he thinks it acceptable to judge everyone – and not just women – solely on appearance, then he must improve his own in 2014.
He should slap on the fake tan or book a sunbed session. A regular gym workout wouldn't go amiss nor would a sexier wardrobe to show up his soon to be newly toned torso.
Let's look forward to Basil flashing the flesh in risqué outfits and providing some eye candy for the bored women of Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly needs to stop riding on police Land Rovers in 2014. The North Belfast MLA had a reputation in republican circles as something of an action man during the conflict but the war is long over.
His New Year's resolution should be to stop the stunts, like the one in Ardoyne in June, and remember he's not a young militant seeking to overthrow the system now.
He's a 60-year-old mainstream politician who supports the police and law and order.
Jamie Bryson and Willie Frazer should forget about the fleg in the New Year and join Islamic fundamentalists in a campaign for free speech. Sure they're halfway there already.
In September, Willie dressed as radical cleric Abu Hamza, and Jamie wore a wig and taped his mouth, in protest at being charged under laws to deal with Muslim extremists.
